The Joy Luck Club喜福会

1、The Joy Luck Club,by Amy Tan（谭恩美）,喜福会,MAIN CONTENTS,This is the cover of this book.As we can see the two women hugging each other tightly.,The Joy Luck Club,The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan.,The Joy Luck Club,The Joy Luck Club focuses on four Chinese American immig

2、rant families in San Francisco who start a club known as the Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters. The three mother

3、s and four daughters (one mother, Suyuan Woo, dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each part is preceded by a parable relating to the game.,the Chinese game of mahjong,the four parts of the novel: 1.千里鸿毛一片心 2.道道重门 吴精美：喜福会 薇弗莱：棋盘上的较量 许安美：伤疤的故事 丽娜：凌迟之痛

4、 龚琳达：红烛泪 许露丝：信仰与命运 莺莺：中秋之夜 吴精美：慈母心 3.美国游戏规则 4.西天王母 丽娜：饭票丈夫 许安美：姨太太的悲剧 薇弗莱：美国女婿拜 莺莺：男人靠不住 见中国丈母娘 龚琳达：在美国和中国 许露丝：离婚之痛 间摇摆。 吴精美：哎呦妈妈 吴精美：共同的母亲,The Joy Luck Club,In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang.,The Joy Luck Club,Even though The Joy Luck Clubtakes place primaril

5、y in San Francisco in the United States, much of the novel occurs in flashbacks, set in China. The serene beauty of this Eastern country, marred by the violence of war, is evoked in the tale of Suyuan(吴精美） and her daughters. During the course of the flashbacks, the cities of Hong Kong and Shanghai,

6、and the surrounding districts and towns, like Kweilin and Taiyuan, are portrayed in detail.,war,Suyuan and her twins,The Joy Luck Club,The Joy Luck Club, for which the book is named, is located in modern day San Francisco, where four Chinese mothers have made lives for themselves after leaving their

7、 native countries years earlier. A miniature of the old country has been recreated in San Franciscos Chinatown, where most of the immigrants live in the city. Their houses are replicas of homes in the motherland and are adorned with traditional Chinese furniture and decorations. Within Chinatown, th

8、e older inhabitants continue to follow their native customs and celebrate their important festivals. They also gather often to enjoy each other and to eat Chinese delicacies.,The Joy Luck Club,Although many of the younger generation Chinese descendants still live in Chinatown, they are very differen

9、t from the older generation of immigrants. They have largely adopted the American way of life. The novel includes anecdotes and stories from three generations of women, spanning a period of time that is sixty to eighty years in length and ending in the 1980s, when the book was published. The novel c

10、loses with a visit to China in the present day. This ending unifies the geographical and historical settings of the novel in a most fulfilling way.,Two Kinds,We are told in the beginning of the story that Jing Meis mother is a Chinese immigrant who came to San Francisco in 1949. The reader can assum

11、e that the story takes place here, and Amy Tan throws in descriptions of different locales - The Mission District, an ethnically diverse neighborhood in San Francisco, and the fact that Jing - Mei live on Sacramento Street in Chinatown - to clarify this. Using references like the Ed Sullivan Show, the reader could also assume that it is most